Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Beetown Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 53855
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-53855.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Beetown Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Atkinson Mine (Muscalunge Level)
Beetown Mine
Blackjack Mine (Wilcox Diggings)
Eberle Mine
Grant River Diggings
Peter Kershbaum Quarry (Allied Stone Company)
Yellow Jacket Mine

Latitude: 42°47'7"N
Longitude: 90°52'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.785277777778,-90.878333333333

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	287511,287512	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	287511	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	287510,287511,287512,287513,287514,287516	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	287514	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	287511,287512	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	287511,287512	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	287510,287512,287513,287516	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	287510,287513,287514,287516	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	287514	7437
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	287511,287512	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5	287510,287511,287512,287514,287516	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	287510,287511,287512,287513,287514,287516	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	287510,287512,287513,287516	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	287512	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	287511,287512,287513,287514,287516	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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